Quotes By Famke Janssen

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.

I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

I've lived in New York for a really long time.

I don't watch TV.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy.

I am attracted to the dark side of life!

The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.

I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

The Dutch are a very practical people.

As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.

I'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.

I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.

I personally like to do independent films.